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Marco Rocca
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CNRS Researcher in labour law 🔍⚖️⚙️(Strasbourg University, UMR 7354 DRES) PI #ERCStG E-BoP - European Birds of Passage
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vbogoesky.bsky.social
Comrades, the moving labour collective is oraganising its third summer camp, this time in Malmö: June 14-17.

We are hoping to create a space where labour scholars, lawyers, activists, unionists will collectively work on intersectional solidarity praxis and organising strategies.

Come join us!
November 14, 2025 at 9:23 AM
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Is AI making job recruitment less meritocratic? We're getting some v interesting research studies on this question now, and the news is... not good. @jburnmurdoch.ft.com & I dive in, in the latest edition of our newsletter The AI Shift www.ft.com/content/e5b7...
November 14, 2025 at 10:13 AM
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hansonmark.bsky.social
We wrote the Strain on scientific publishing to highlight the problems of time & trust. With a fantastic group of co-authors, we present The Drain of Scientific Publishing:

a 🧵 1/n

Drain: arxiv.org/abs/2511.04820
Strain: direct.mit.edu/qss/article/...
Oligopoly: direct.mit.edu/qss/article/...
A table showing profit margins of major publishers. A snippet of text related to this table is below. 1. The four-fold drain 1.1 Money Currently, academic publishing is dominated by profit-oriented, multinational companies for whom scientific knowledge is a commodity to be sold back to the academic community who created it. The dominant four are Elsevier, Springer Nature, Wiley and Taylor & Francis, which collectively generated over US$7.1 billion in revenue from journal publishing in 2024 alone, and over US$12 billion in profits between 2019 and 2024 (Table 1A). Their profit margins have always been over 30% in the last five years, and for the largest publisher (Elsevier) always over 37%. Against many comparators, across many sectors, scientific publishing is one of the most consistently profitable industries (Table S1). These financial arrangements make a substantial difference to science budgets. In 2024, 46% of Elsevier revenues and 53% of Taylor & Francis revenues were generated in North America, meaning that North American researchers were charged over US$2.27 billion by just two for-profit publishers. The Canadian research councils and the US National Science Foundation were allocated US$9.3 billion in that year. A figure detailing the drain on researcher time. 1. The four-fold drain 1.2 Time The number of papers published each year is growing faster than the scientific workforce, with the number of papers per researcher almost doubling between 1996 and 2022 (Figure 1A). This reflects the fact that publishers’ commercial desire to publish (sell) more material has aligned well with the competitive prestige culture in which publications help secure jobs, grants, promotions, and awards. To the extent that this growth is driven by a pressure for profit, rather than scholarly imperatives, it distorts the way researchers spend their time. The publishing system depends on unpaid reviewer labour, estimated to be over 130 million unpaid hours annually in 2020 alone (9). Researchers have complained about the demands of peer-review for decades, but the scale of the problem is now worse, with editors reporting widespread difficulties recruiting reviewers. The growth in publications involves not only the authors’ time, but that of academic editors and reviewers who are dealing with so many review demands. Even more seriously, the imperative to produce ever more articles reshapes the nature of scientific inquiry. Evidence across multiple fields shows that more papers result in ‘ossification’, not new ideas (10). It may seem paradoxical that more papers can slow progress until one considers how it affects researchers’ time. While rewards remain tied to volume, prestige, and impact of publications, researchers will be nudged away from riskier, local, interdisciplinary, and long-term work. The result is a treadmill of constant activity with limited progress whereas core scholarly practices – such as reading, reflecting and engaging with others’ contributions – is de-prioritized. What looks like productivity often masks intellectual exhaustion built on a demoralizing, narrowing scientific vision. A table of profit margins across industries. The section of text related to this table is below: 1. The four-fold drain 1.1 Money Currently, academic publishing is dominated by profit-oriented, multinational companies for whom scientific knowledge is a commodity to be sold back to the academic community who created it. The dominant four are Elsevier, Springer Nature, Wiley and Taylor & Francis, which collectively generated over US$7.1 billion in revenue from journal publishing in 2024 alone, and over US$12 billion in profits between 2019 and 2024 (Table 1A). Their profit margins have always been over 30% in the last five years, and for the largest publisher (Elsevier) always over 37%. Against many comparators, across many sectors, scientific publishing is one of the most consistently profitable industries (Table S1). These financial arrangements make a substantial difference to science budgets. In 2024, 46% of Elsevier revenues and 53% of Taylor & Francis revenues were generated in North America, meaning that North American researchers were charged over US$2.27 billion by just two for-profit publishers. The Canadian research councils and the US National Science Foundation were allocated US$9.3 billion in that year. The costs of inaction are plain: wasted public funds, lost researcher time, compromised scientific integrity and eroded public trust. Today, the system rewards commercial publishers first, and science second. Without bold action from the funders we risk continuing to pour resources into a system that prioritizes profit over the advancement of scientific knowledge.
November 11, 2025 at 11:52 AM
marcorocca.bsky.social
📺 If you missed our European Birds of Passage seminar "Temporary Labour Migration in Europe" the video is now available on the ILO website here: www.ilo.org/meetings-and...

#labourmigration #ILO #EUlaw
Temporary Labour Migration in Europe
This webinar will present findings from the ERC-funded project 'European Birds of Passage', which examines how EU and national laws shape the rights and perceptions of temporary migrant workers. The d...
www.ilo.org
November 13, 2025 at 7:29 AM
Reposted by Marco Rocca
mellino.bsky.social
I've been investigating the huge levels of exploitation faced by workers on the seasonal worker visa for the last few years, and have often asked myself why the trade union movement has ignored these workers.

So I spoke to unions, big and small, to try and answer that question.
November 12, 2025 at 8:31 AM
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etuc-ces.bsky.social
Minimum Wages: Directive put beyond all doubt by today’s ruling of the Court of Justice.

@estherlynch.bsky.social 📢 "this judgment confirms that the Minimum Wage Directive stands firm – the EU can and must act for fair wages."
November 11, 2025 at 8:59 AM
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mdiasabey.bsky.social
The Moving Labour Collective is pleased to invite applications for our biennial Labour Law Summer Camp, taking place in Malmö, Sweden, from 14–17 June 2026. Applications close on 1 December—please feel free to reach out with any questions!
November 10, 2025 at 8:10 AM
marcorocca.bsky.social
📢 Call for papers
« #Migration in times of crisis: Legal Insights and Humanitarian Challenges » (1-3 April 2026, Settat)

Call here : dres.unistra.fr/websites/mis...

Deadline for submission : 30 November 2025
November 10, 2025 at 9:22 AM
Reposted by Marco Rocca
profmccann.bsky.social
Important new article on informality under the IASHR by @mauropucheta.bsky.social and @renanbkalil.bsky.social, open access in the ILJ. Exploring the potential for a rights-based model and calling for a more systematic recognition of informal workers by the Court. academic.oup.com/ilj/advance-...
Informal Workers, Vulnerability and Human Rights: An Inter-American Story
ABSTRACT . Informality is a defining feature of labour markets in Latin America and the Caribbean, where nearly half of the workforce remains excluded from
academic.oup.com
November 7, 2025 at 12:42 PM
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dignityfirm.bsky.social
💡 A NEW PUBLICATION IS OUT!

Policy Brief - Relations between immigration and labour policies.
The Role of the State Labour Inspectorate in Preventing Irregular Employment of Migrant Workers in Poland.

👉 www.dignityfirm.eu/policy-brief...
November 6, 2025 at 8:43 AM
marcorocca.bsky.social
The E-BoP seminar at the ILO takes place tomorrow!
marcorocca.bsky.social Marco Rocca @marcorocca.bsky.social · Oct 16
📢 The European Birds of Passage team will present our preliminary findings at the International Labour Organization (Geneva) in the seminar “Temporary Labour Migration in Europe” (28 October, 1PM - 3PM CEST)

#labourmigration #ILO #EUlaw

www.ilo.org/meetings-and...
Temporary Labour Migration in Europe
This webinar will present findings from the ERC-funded project 'European Birds of Passage', which examines how EU and national laws shape the rights and perceptions of temporary migrant workers. The d...
www.ilo.org
October 27, 2025 at 10:16 AM
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gregdoucette.bsky.social
A year or two ago, I started keeping a list of cases where attorneys had been disciplined for submitting court documents with fake AI-generated filings. Figured it would be a short-lived phenomenon as attys became aware

I had to stop, because the number is growing faster than I could keep up
legal.reuters.com Reuters Legal @legal.reuters.com · 23d
Marking the latest collision of artificial intelligence with attorney ethics, a large U.S. law firm told a judge it was "profoundly embarrassed" after one of its lawyers submitted a court filing with inaccurate and non-existent citations that were generated by AI.
Large US law firm apologizes for AI errors in bankruptcy court filing
Marking the latest collision of artificial intelligence with attorney ethics, a large U.S. law firm told a judge it was "profoundly embarrassed" after one of its lawyers submitted a court filing with inaccurate and non-existent citations that were generated by AI.
reut.rs
October 24, 2025 at 9:51 PM
marcorocca.bsky.social
📢 The European Birds of Passage team will present our preliminary findings at the International Labour Organization (Geneva) in the seminar “Temporary Labour Migration in Europe” (28 October, 1PM - 3PM CEST)

#labourmigration #ILO #EUlaw

www.ilo.org/meetings-and...
Temporary Labour Migration in Europe
This webinar will present findings from the ERC-funded project 'European Birds of Passage', which examines how EU and national laws shape the rights and perceptions of temporary migrant workers. The d...
www.ilo.org
October 16, 2025 at 9:51 AM
Reposted by Marco Rocca
etui.bsky.social
Workers' rights need protection and reinforcement - and international #HumanRights standards can play an important role in achieving this aim ⚖️

We had a full room at our recent launch of the new book 'The International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights and the Employment Relation'
🧵👇
October 14, 2025 at 9:47 AM
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nataliesedacca.bsky.social
With immigration raids across the US devastating the agricultural workforce, the conditions for bringing in new guest workers have been made even more exploitative by allowing employers to charge for housing, on top of employer tie and prohibition on organising www.freedomunited.org/news/agricul...
Temporary agricultural worker policy has exploitation baked in - FreedomUnited.org
Immigration raids have devastated the agricultural workforce in the US but Americans don’t want the jobs. To bring in affordable guest workers a new rule has been added that is full of exploitation lo...
www.freedomunited.org
October 12, 2025 at 7:23 AM
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dignityfirm.bsky.social
💡 NEW PUBLICATION IS OUT

📌 The DignityFIRM project aims at understanding of and improving policies related to irregular migrant work (IMW) in the Farm to Fork (F2F) sector.

👉 www.dignityfirm.eu/the-governan...
October 6, 2025 at 7:46 AM
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tinavasquez.bsky.social
I want to do a little breakdown of this investigation I published today for @prismreports.org about gender-based violence in the H-2A agricultural visa program.
She managed to get a farmworker visa. Once in the U.S., she endured abuse.
A Prism investigation reveals that women are routinely shut out of the H-2A program. Those who get in report doing non-agricultural labor and facing sexual violence and trafficking
prismreports.org
September 24, 2025 at 9:48 PM
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voelkerrechtsblog.org
Aren't silencing attempts against a symposium highlighting academic silencing ironic? Khaled El Mahmoud, Anna Sophia Tiedeke & Sissy Katsoni think so! In their contribution to the symp., the eds. of #Ö share the silencing attempts they faced while organising it. voelkerrechtsblog.org/isnt-it-ironic
Isn’t it Ironic?
voelkerrechtsblog.org
September 15, 2025 at 5:07 PM
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bigmacca.bsky.social
With @gemmagasseau.bsky.social we have a new short piece in Capital & Class, where we analyse continuties and changes in European economic governance. We argue that, despite the changes since the pandemic, EU integration remains centered on neoliberalism (1)
gemmagasseau.bsky.social Gemma Gasseau @gemmagasseau.bsky.social · Sep 6
What's changing and what's not in European Economic Governance in the current conjuncture? With @bigmacca.bsky.social we address the question in this short piece just published journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
DM if interested but don't have access!
The image shows the title and the abstract of the paper cited.
September 8, 2025 at 3:49 PM
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egruien.bsky.social
E-GRUiEN consortium is composed of representatives from from 11 academic and research centers, led by Prof. Nathan Lillie, Professor of Social and Public Policy, and the Head of the Social and Public Policy unit in the Department of Social Sciences and Philosophy (Jyvaskylan Yliopisto, Finland).
April 22, 2025 at 7:26 AM
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etui.bsky.social
🗨️ Labour law professor Silvia Borelli talks to @equaltimes.bsky.social about substandard working practices in the #logistics sector, which she documents in her recent study for the ETUI, 'Sorry we subcontracted you'

🔗 www.equaltimes.org/subcontracti...

Read the full study here 🔗 etui.org/ZRM
Subcontracting and algorithmic management in e-commerce are turning the logistics sector into a laboratory for labour abuses, warns academic Silvia Borelli
Driven by e-commerce and the radical changes that technology has brought about in European consumption habits, logistics has become one of the fastest growing sectors in the EU economy. But it is also...
www.equaltimes.org
September 2, 2025 at 8:41 AM
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etui.bsky.social
Interested in coming to work with us at the ETUI?

Background in economics?

We are seeking a full-time researcher to bring quantitative skills to questions of European economic and employment policies

See here for more info 🔗 etui.org/ZR5

📆 Deadline: 31 August
July 31, 2025 at 10:05 AM
marcorocca.bsky.social
Everything is ready for our conference (it's on Monday!) 🔥. You can still register for online attendance here ep-events.secure.europarl.europa.eu/lincstrasbou...
marcorocca.bsky.social Marco Rocca @marcorocca.bsky.social · Apr 28
European Birds of Passage mid-project conference: “Empirical Insights on the Legal Framework for Temporary Labour Migration in the EU"
📌European Parliament in Strasbourg (and online)
📅30 June 2025
🗣️EN and FR
details and registration here 👇
www.europeanbirdsofpassage.eu/news/e-bop-m...
European Birds of Passage Initial Results Conference Empirical Insights on the Legal Framework for Temporary Labour Migration in the EU 30 June 2025 (10AM - 6PM) European Parliament in Strasbourg & Online
June 27, 2025 at 9:33 AM
marcorocca.bsky.social
Deadline for registration for in-person attendance is next Monday (23 June) ⌛

Conference spotlight n° 5 🔦: I will present the results of two systematic analyses of EU law (focusing on "labour market" and "temporariness") to explore the legal chronotope of temporary labour migration in/to the EU.
marcorocca.bsky.social Marco Rocca @marcorocca.bsky.social · Apr 28
European Birds of Passage mid-project conference: “Empirical Insights on the Legal Framework for Temporary Labour Migration in the EU"
📌European Parliament in Strasbourg (and online)
📅30 June 2025
🗣️EN and FR
details and registration here 👇
www.europeanbirdsofpassage.eu/news/e-bop-m...
European Birds of Passage Initial Results Conference Empirical Insights on the Legal Framework for Temporary Labour Migration in the EU 30 June 2025 (10AM - 6PM) European Parliament in Strasbourg & Online
June 20, 2025 at 7:26 AM
marcorocca.bsky.social
just as the Summer heat, our conference is fast approaching (📅 30 June 📌 European Parliament in Strasbourg)

Conference spotlight n° 4 💡: Audrey Deverson will present her research, based on field interviews in France and Spain, on the challenges faced by temporary migrant women in agriculture
marcorocca.bsky.social Marco Rocca @marcorocca.bsky.social · Apr 28
European Birds of Passage mid-project conference: “Empirical Insights on the Legal Framework for Temporary Labour Migration in the EU"
📌European Parliament in Strasbourg (and online)
📅30 June 2025
🗣️EN and FR
details and registration here 👇
www.europeanbirdsofpassage.eu/news/e-bop-m...
European Birds of Passage Initial Results Conference Empirical Insights on the Legal Framework for Temporary Labour Migration in the EU 30 June 2025 (10AM - 6PM) European Parliament in Strasbourg & Online
June 12, 2025 at 2:44 PM